House Baratheon of Storm's End
Lord Michael Baratheon
Michael Baratheon, Lord of Storm’s End, High Lord of Shipbreaker Bay and Lord Paramount of the Stormlands
Age: 42 in 129 AC (born in 87 AC)
Rank: Lord of a Great House
Traits (10 points):
Battles +2
Survival +2
Duel +3
Charisma +3
Bio:
As the son of Boremund Baratheon, Lord Michael Baratheon stems from the line of Orys Baratheon and the line of House Durrendon, the storm kings. He, like many other highborn men from the Stormlands, was brought up in the martial traditions of its hardened people. Sword and shield and lance, as well as any other weapon, Michael had to master before coming of age. As part of his training, he served as a page and later as a squire for Lord Selmy from the Dornish Marches. There the young Baratheon battled Dornish raiders at the foot of the Red Mountains, side by side with the marcher lords. Michael grew to become a strong knight, the image of Orys Baratheon with his long black hair, blue eyes and tall body with broad shoulders. A man who preferred the heat of battle to words, he rarely left his beloved Stormlands to get involved with the courtly politics of King's Landing. Instead, he often visited his bannermen, feasting in their halls to strengthen their bond of loyalty.
Michael Baratheon married a lady of House Swann, who gave him three daughters: Eleanor, Perrianne and Falyse. The Three Does, as some have come to call them, are perhaps the ones he treasure most of all. In his youth, under Jaehaerys the Old King's reign and Viserys' early years, Michael never cared for politics nor the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. After the tourney of 111 AC, though, the forming of the blacks and the greens caught his interest. Lord Boremund was an outspoken supporter of Princess Rhaenyra, in contrast to his son who never officially picked a side. Michael became more watchful of the major events of the realm, continuing as Boremund passed and he became Lord of Storm's End.
With the death of King Viserys, Lord Baratheon is in the Stormlands, training his martial prowess, yet ever watchful of the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. Some believe he will declare for Rhaenyra like his late father, but there is much uncertainty in the times that would come to be known as the Dance of the Dragons.
Eleanor Baratheon, the Fury
Eleanor “the Fury” Baratheon, Heir to Storm’s End
Age: 17 in 129 AC (born 112 AC)
Traits (5 points):
Duel +3
Joust +2
Bio:
On the day of her birth, it is said that a great storm raged over Shipbreaker Bay. The smallfolk whispered in their homes that the sea god and the goddess of the wind, out to finally tear down Durran Godsgrief's final castle. Yet as Eleanor was brought into the world, she roared so loudly that the storm outside went silent. Her father, Lord Michael Baratheon, laughed and said that she was truly claimed the fury of the gods with her first breaths. She was big for her age, as well as strong. Her life would have been that of any lady of the Seven Kingdoms, had it not been for the birth of her two younger siblings. Distraught by the failure of getting a son, Lord Michael decided to name her his heir and make her into a warrior worthy of the Baratheon name.
Knowing that no lord would take her as his page or squire, Lord Michael trained her himself in the courtyard of Storm's End. Her training was much harsher than what he himself had gone through, as to make sure that her feminine parts would not be a liability. Eleanor proved more than capable of handling it, her strength, speed and stamina enhanced as the years went by. She was happy spending so much time with her father, particularly when he took her on journeys around the Stormlands, which would one day be hers.
After her first flowering, Eleanor began to grow rapidly. Her body matured, yet she kept her trained physique, becoming even taller than her father who stood a 6 feet. On the training grounds she beat most knights who would dare meet her. Eleanor looked like any Baratheon with her long black hair, blur eyes and broad shoulders and tall body. There were those who would make japes at her expense, making fun of her unfeminine appearance and unladylike manners, while others shook their heads at her father's madness, playing knight with his daughter instead of fathering a true son and heir. Those who said such things to her face were either knocked out with a swift punch or facing her in a duel.
Eleanor is like her father in his younger years, with no interest in politics, as well as no interest in what young highborn ladies are supposed to like. Her younger sisters stand in contrast to her, mainly raised by their mother. They are the image of a courtly lady. Many of the japes at her expense stem from them, but she has learnt to deal with it. She just continues focusing on her martial prowess, with the Seven Kingdoms falling apart after the death of Viserys.
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